In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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